At least 25 people, most of them school children, were killed in a head-on collision between an overcrowded bus and a truck near the central Pakistan town of Lodhran today, police said.
The bus was heading out of Lodhran when it rammed into the truck on the opposite side of the road. Those killed included 20 students and four women, police said.
More than 30 people were injured.
"The bus was full to capacity. Some students were sitting on the roof," said Lodhran's police chief Khurram Ali.
Meanwhile, at least 22 people have been killed and 27 others injured when a bus carrying university students and teachers crashed in eastern Thailand this morning.
Police Major Suchart Yaemsak says the bus was travelling down a steep road with numerous curves when the vehicle slammed into a hillside in Prachinburi province.
He says the initial investigation shows that the bus might have had a brake failure and could not stop on the steep road and the death toll is expected to increase since a number of the injuries were severe.
The passengers were students and teachers travelling from the north-eastern province of Khon Kaen to Chantanaburi province. Most of the dead were aged between 20 and 28.
AP